Nearly half of Americans say they believe the Supreme Court is ruling on President Trump's policies based on ideology instead of the law, according to a new poll.
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FBI Director Kash Patel is planning to visit Russia later this year, likely in mid-October, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the situation. It would be an unusual and sensitive trip for an FBI chief to one of America's top adversaries. The plans come as Washington and Moscow continue to be at odds over the war in Ukraine, with U.S. lawmakers demanding the imposition of heavy new sanctions on Russia.
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For weeks, Army Ranger School students put their bodies through a physical ringer, carrying heavy loads and marching far distances with little to eat and sparing sleep. But when Army researchers measured the course's grueling toll, they found that female soldiers experienced fewer physiological changes than their male counterparts.
With data center power usage increasing, I doubt if the rates are going to go down any time soon ...
@#13 ... in north AL and listen to WLS 890 AM 50,000 watts out of Chicago ...
Yeah, those so-called "clear channel" AM stations were great in their time.
Clear-channel station
en.wikipedia.org
... A clear-channel station is a North American AM radio station that has the highest level of protection from interference from other stations, particularly from nighttime skywave signals. This classification exists to ensure the viability of cross-country or cross-continent radio service enforced through a series of treaties and statutory laws. Known as Class A stations since the 1983 adoption of the Regional Agreement for the Medium Frequency Broadcasting Service in Region 2 (Rio Agreement), they are occasionally still referred to by their former classifications of Class I-A (the highest classification), Class I-B (the next highest class), or Class I-N (for stations in Alaska too far away to cause interference to the primary clear-channel stations in the lower 48 states). The term "clear-channel" is used most often in the context of North America and the Caribbean, where the concept originated.
Since 1941, these stations have been required to maintain a transmitter power output of at least 10,000 watts to retain their status. Nearly all such stations in the United States, Canada and The Bahamas broadcast with 50,000 watts, with several clear-channel stations in Mexico going as high as 150,000 watts, and XEW in Mexico City having formerly operated with 250,000 watts for over 80 years before moving the transmitter and reducing to 100,000 watts in 2016. Cuba was originally included in the plan and had several stations given clear-channel status, but stopped participating after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. ...
Fun stuff ...
Taylor Farms lettuce is still focus of cyclospora investigation despite false positive test, FDA says
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... A sample of lettuce from Taylor Farms that had tested positive for cyclospora was a false positive, the Food and Drug Administration said Sunday. But the FDA said Monday that its investigation and data "continue to converge on shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms locations in central Mexico."
In the statement announcing the false positive, the FDA said that as of Sunday it had not found any "confirmed positive sample results for product testing for Cyclospora."
In a subsequent statement Monday, it said, "To clarify, this false-positive lab sample DOES NOT change the basis for FDA's ongoing outbreak investigation or the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by Taylor Farms." ...
@#9 ... Boston also had a "stake in the ground" underground station like WNEW-FM in NYC. Unfortunately, it is too long ago and I no longer recall the call letters ... :( ...
Possibly WBCN?
WBMX
en.wikipedia.org
... WBMX (104.1 FM) is a radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, serving Greater Boston with a hot adult contemporary format. The format started at 98.5 FM on February 9, 1991, and moved to 104.1 FM, replacing WBCN on August 12, 2009, to allow for the launch of WBZ-FM at 98.5 the next day. Its studios are located in Brighton, and its transmitter is on the upper FM mast of the Prudential Tower in Downtown Boston.
The 104.1 MHz facility went on the air in 1958 as WBCN.
A classical music station for its first ten years, beginning in 1968 WBCN featured a rock format for 41 years.
Known as "The Rock of Boston", WBCN became a legend in the rock music industry for breaking many bands, including U2.[3] ...
@#7 ... a fringe (often "underground") appeal ...
Maybe take a peek at WFMU ...
WFMU
en.wikipedia.org
... WFMU (91.1 MHz) is a non-commercial, listener-supported, independent community radio station licensed to East Orange, New Jersey, with studios in Jersey City. It is owned by Auricle Communications, broadcasting a free-form radio format. ...
I receive the station over-the-air here.
Yeah, "free-form" is a proper appellation for the station.
My guess is that they also have a streaming link ...
@#1 ... AMOC ...
More on AMOC ... (and, no, this is not AOC in Congress...)
Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
en.wikipedia.org
... The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the main ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean.[1]:2238
It is a major component of Earth's ocean circulation system and plays an important role in the planet's climate system.
The AMOC includes Atlantic currents at the surface and at great depths that are driven by changes in weather, temperature and salinity.
Those currents comprise half of the global thermohaline circulation that includes the flow of major ocean currents, the other half being the Southern Ocean overturning circulation.[2]
The AMOC is composed of a northward flow of warm, more saline water in the Atlantic's upper layers and a southward, return flow of cold, less salty, deep water. Warm water from the south is more saline ('halocline') because of the higher evaporation rate in the tropical zone. The warm saline water forms the upper layer of the ocean ('thermocline'), but when this layer cools down, the density of the salty water increases, making it sink into the deep.
This is an important part of the motor of the AMOC system. The limbs are linked by regions of overturning in the Nordic Seas and the Southern Ocean. Overturning sites are associated with intense exchanges of heat, dissolved oxygen, carbon and other nutrients, and very important for the ocean's ecosystems and its function as a carbon sink.[3][4]
Changes in the strength of the AMOC can affect multiple elements of the climate system.[1]:2238 ...
... Republicans cannot let this become an endless distraction, especially if they want to win in November." ...
The Republicans have already let Pres Trump become an endless distraction.
How's the Reflecting Pool coming along?